Railroad-tie.



P. C. ANGLES.

RAILROAD TIE.

APPLICATION FILED 111161.22, 1911.

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nnrrnn srn'rns PATENT onnien FRANK CLAYTON ANGLUS, OF CENTERVILLE,CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF 0NE-FOURTH 'IO FRANK '1. HAWES AND ONE-FOURTH TOFRANK S. FRANCIS, BOTH OF CENTER- VILLE, CALIFORNIA.

RAILROAD-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK O. ANGLUS, citizen of the United States,residing at Centerville, in the county of Alameda and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Railroad-Tie, of which thefollowing is a specification in such full and clear terms as will enablethose skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to a combined steel and concrete mass railroadtie, its object be ing to produce a tie which will be cheaplyconstructed and which will dispense with the use of spikes for securingthe rails thereto.

Another object of the invention is to produce a railroad tie which willalways carry the proper gage thereon so as to enable the track layers todispense with gaging the rails when laying the track.

Another object of the invention is to produce a tie which will haveconsiderable resiliency and which will be substantially in destructible.

In the drawings in which the same nucomplete ties, Fig. 2 is an end viewof oneof the ties, Fig. 3 is a view of a plate used to secure the railand tie together, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of completedtrack illustrating the application thereto of the ties.

The numeral 1 represents the ties, which are constructed of suitablechannel steel in which there is produced a reentrant groove 2 near eachend, said reentrant groove facing the same direction on each end of thetie. Adjacent this reentrant groove is a straight shoulder 3, theshoulder and groove 2 having the space between them depressed below thetop surface of the tie a suificient amount to seat the lower rail flangetherein. The space between the two grooves 2 is of the exact distancethe rails are intended to be spaced apart, so that a measure is neverrequired in laying the track.

To hold the rails in place on the ties, a plate 6 is used, said platehaving a doubledup portion 7 and heel portion 8 to abut against theshoulder 3. This plate 6 is slid under the rail, as indicated on one endof the perspective view, and holds the rail tightly against the groove2.

In laying the track, one tie is placed with the groove 2 on one side ofthe rail, while the next adjacent ties are placed with the groove 2 onthe opposite side of the rail, the ties simply being turned end for end,all of them being identical in form. The space between the shoulder 3and the overhanging portion of the groove 2 is just sufliciently wide toadmit the rail into its seat, and when so admitted, the ties are forcedlongitudinally until they contact with the rail, whereupon the soil istamped tightly around them and the plate 6 is inserted to hold the railand tie firmly together, no spikes being necessary.

Inasmuch as steel alone does not form sufficient body and is too easilybent to make a complete tie, the underside of the channel is completelyfilled with asphalt and concrete, that is, a mixture containing aboutten per cent. of hard asphalt and ninety per cent. of broken stone, thismixture being very tough and withstanding the heaviest kind of wearwithout cracking. This concrete is forced into the channel when hot, andon cooling, it adheres thereto very strongly and forms sufiicient bodyto give the track the necessary support on soft ground.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, modifications within thescope of the claims being expressly reserved, is as follows 1. In acomposite railroad tie, a steel channel having two rail seats on itsupper side each having a projecting lip facing in the same direction andhaving a shoulder at the other side thereof, and a plate substantiallythe same in width as the width of said rail seat, and having a ribprojecting therefrom at substantially the same distance from one edgethereof as the width of the base of the rail, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a composite railroad tie, a steel channel having two rail seats onits upper side, each rail seat having a lip projecting thereover andfacing in the same direction and having a right angle shoulder at theother side thereof and a plate substantially In testimony whereof I havehereunto set the same in lgvvidlth as the mil seat, said plate my hand.havin a ri a jacent one ed e and at substantiZlly the same distance a ethe Width of FRANK CLAYTON ANGLUS' the bottom of the rail from the otheredge, \Vitnesses:

said rib being Wider than the depth of the FRANK T. HAWES, bottom flangeof the rail. FRANK S. FRANCIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

